Media Literacy

#2023GeneralElections: Influencing Nigeria’s democracy with facts

Simbiat Bakare April 30, 2023

Many youths have a vested interest in politics. As someone lightheartedly said, during the Nigeria 2023 general...

Demystifying notion pap smear is only done for women with multiple sexual partners

Lois Ugbede April 26, 2023

Myths around health issues are not new, but I was particularly stunned when I heard “Pap smear”...

Manhajoji bakwai wadanda “masu yada bayanan bogi” ke amfani da su wajen kirkiro labaran karya

Kabir Yusuf April 25, 2023

A bara, wani bidiyon bogi ya rika yawo a shafukar soshiyal mediya yana nuna Vlodomyr Zelensky, shugaban...

Audio-based Deepfakes: Risks, detection, and verification techniques

Silas Jonathan April 22, 2023

Jennifer DeStefano, a mother from Scottsdale, Arizona, received a hoax call in which her 15-year-old daughter was...

Foreign diplomats and local politics: The case of Michael McCarthy, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia

Jackson C. Clay Jr. April 21, 2023

On March 27, 2023, the White House announced a new US Ambassador to Liberia, Mark Christopher Toner....

Meningitis Outbreak: All you need to know about its symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment as cases rise in Jigawa

Isaiah Ude April 19, 2023

Full Text Meningitis cases have been a yearly occurrence in Nigeria, with a spike observed during the...

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Seven tools often used by ‘disinformants’ to create fake narratives

Kabir Yusuf April 18, 2023

Sometime last year, a video circulated on social media falsely showing Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine,...

ZoomUpYourLife: How fraudsters manipulate Peter Okoye’s lottery scheme to fleece unsuspecting Nigerians through fake WhatsApp calls

Elizabeth Ogunbamowo April 17, 2023

For a while now, unproven allegations of fraud against Peter Okoye, the Nigerian music star, have remained...

Is media freedom under threat?

Mariam Sankanu April 5, 2023

In a recent article by The Standard Newspaper, Lamin Queen Jammeh, The Gambia’s Information Minister, stated that...

#Freefrombias: How to prevent stereotypes from rearing their ugly heads in fact-checks

Simbiat Bakare April 3, 2023

It’s no news that the African culture is patriarchal and sexist. Typically, the culture deems male children...

Media Literacy

#2023GeneralElections: Influencing Nigeria’s democracy with facts

Demystifying notion pap smear is only done for women with multiple sexual partners

Manhajoji bakwai wadanda “masu yada bayanan bogi” ke amfani da su wajen kirkiro labaran karya

Audio-based Deepfakes: Risks, detection, and verification techniques

Foreign diplomats and local politics: The case of Michael McCarthy, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia

Meningitis Outbreak: All you need to know about its symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment as cases rise in Jigawa

Seven tools often used by ‘disinformants’ to create fake narratives

ZoomUpYourLife: How fraudsters manipulate Peter Okoye’s lottery scheme to fleece unsuspecting Nigerians through fake WhatsApp calls

Is media freedom under threat?

#Freefrombias: How to prevent stereotypes from rearing their ugly heads in fact-checks

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Bidiyo ne na Mali aka yi karyar barazanar kai harin ta’addanci a Najeriya

Tsohon bidiyo na masu sauya matsuguni a Sokoto ne aka sake yada shi da taken labari na karya

False! Foreign nationals did not attack South Africans in Johannesburg

Explainer: Four malaria prevention measures every Gambian should know